Technical Petrol filling issues

[woolfie]

Hi troops
I'm currently having problems filling the panda with petrol. Fuel pump clicks out after about 15p worth of fuel. Obviously takes ages to fill up . no bolckage in the main fuel line so any suggestions to where I look next.
Cheers
Woolfie

 

[koalar]

Try a different petrol pump

Try with the nozzle upside down

 

[varesecrazy]

Hi troops
I'm currently having problems filling the panda with petrol. Fuel pump clicks out after about 15p worth of fuel. Obviously takes ages to fill up . no bolckage in the main fuel line so any suggestions to where I look next.
Cheers
Woolfie

Technique..

Italian filler nozzles are different to the Uk style..

This works at Sainsbury and Tesco in the uk

Put filler hose into neck of tank, insert around 20 %

Then twist, "clockwise" so the handle trigger is now at 9 o'clock position

Nozzle will probably go further into tank now

That has worked on my last 8 petrol FIAT cars (Unleaded era)

 

[puntodad19]

Have you had the tank out very recently by chance ?

 

[Mike1alike]

I have a problem too with filling the tank with petrol.
It costs too much!!!

 

[The Panda Nut]

I have a problem too with filling the tank with petrol.
It costs too much!!!

Not so much as when DIckheadtator detrjumparse has finished starting world war 3.

 

[imported_woolfie]

Technique..

Italian filler nozzles are different to the Uk style..

This works at Sainsbury and Tesco in the uk

Put filler hose into neck of tank, insert around 20 %

Then twist, "clockwise" so the handle trigger is now at 9 o'clock position

Nozzle will probably go further into tank now

That has worked on my last 8 petrol FIAT cars (Unleaded era)

Thanks for the reply will try this next time .

 

[puntodad19]

MmmThanks for the reply will try this next time .

 

[woolfie]

Have you had the tank out very recently by chance ?

Tank never out so nothing disturbed there. Just becoming a bit of a head nipper .

 

[zeppelins]

I thought it was just me! First time I filled up the 100hp it would stop every second or two.

There's a technique to it for sure. Its fine once you figured it out

 

[DaveMcT]

My petrol Pandas fill fine when the nozzle is not shoved in too far. The diesel is a lottery for the pump (not) tripping off when it's full. The filler neck looks identical to the petrol cars so it can't go in very far.

 

[Strandvaskeren]

Fuel pump clicks out after about 15p worth of fuel.

Maybe that's how much fuel it needs?

I've been driving a big Volvo for a decade, a couple of months ago it developed a problem with the electronics and wouldn't run. Didn't look like an easy fix and I needed a car, so I bought this cheap 2007 Panda 1.2 as a temporary solution, thinking that it could keep me running while I got the Volvo back up and running and after that my nephew could get the Panda as his first car, he got a drives license just before Christmas.

Turns out I really like the Panda, it's charming, "plucky" and a lot of fun and my Volvo, well haven't really gotten around to doing much with that, so there's that..

However being used to filling 70 litre of premium on the Volvo, first time I had to fill up the Panda I thought it was broken. Brrrr, click and apparently that was all it needed. The Volvo gives me roughly 800 km on 67 litres of the most expensive dino juice, the Panda gives me 500 km on 27 litres of the budget stuff. So when your Panda clicks out after 15p of fuel, it might just be that it doesn't need anymore, hehe..

 

[puntodad19]

Volvo V70 ?

Brake light staying on ?

Car just refuses to run for very long, like 60 seconds or so, if your lucky ?

 

[Strandvaskeren]

Close, an S60.

Parked it one night, everything was fine, next morning it only fired on something like 3 cylinders out of 5, tacho didn't work and it claimed a brake failure, stop immediately. All in one night of being parked. Kinda hard to believe, brake pedal felt fine, no fluids leaked, everything checked out. My diagnostic tool reported a fault in the ECM unit, which sounds more plausible, some old weld giving up the ghost, a broken ground lead, something messing up the canbus signal.